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Our lodgers could well end up buying whelans out then the whelans will vanish to his island in the sun
Unfortunately, as he’s Chairman of the EFL, there’d be a conflict of interests. That said, despite the jibes against him from some on here, he’d be a bloody good owner. In his 10 years of owning the rugby, he has employed 3 managers, and not sacked any of them.
Personally, I cant see anyone buying the club from DW unless the stadium was included as its pretty worthless in its current state.
We wouldn’t be able to afford McLaren & he’d want a transfer kitty which we aint going to have much of.Think we need to be lowering our sights on this one. What about them two lads at Lincoln City, Danny & Nicky Cowley. Lincoln seemed to play in the right way from what little I’ve seen of them in the cup.
I doubt it’d be those two, but with no parachute payment and no substantial transfer kitty, the next appointment needs to be someone with a background of improving a club, and bringing through youth players without spending big bucks.
Someone like Nigel Adkins might fit the bill.
If Reading & Leeds have cemented a play-off place, then we might get something from those games. Prior to that:
Villa – Draw
Newcastle – Loss
Ipswich – Win
Rotherham – Draw (they’ll be down and playing without pressure)
Barnsley – Draw
Brighton – Loss
Cardiff – WinI caught the half-time feature on the Spurs/Millwall game today which featured Chelsea v Leeds in the 1970 cup final.
Both Wembley & Old Trafford pitches looked a damn sight worse than anything I’ve seen either at the DW or on the Football League show!
I’d be shocked if his contract was so inadequate that it entitled him to full compensation in the event that his dismissal was based on poor results ( which are there for everyone to see ). If that is the case, the club needs a new Contracts Manager !It wouldn’t shock me – there didn’t seem to be many relegation clauses kicking around in 2014/15 when we were arranging settlements with the likes of Carson, McLean & Perch to leave for peanuts, and loaning Grant Holt to anyone willing to have him!
I would have thought that in the land of Milk, Honey and lots of money, then having a pitch that is used by another sport would give Hull an advantage over the pampered primadonnas from the likes of Spurs, Chelsea etc.
In fact, considering they were playing Swansea, who also share a stadium with a rugby club, you’d expect yesterdays opposition to be better equipped than anyone in the Premier League when it comes to playing at the KCom stadium!
But then again, it seems that getting points away from home where they aren’t expected are easier than at home where the expectation of most of the fans is that we’ll win.
The DW has rarely been a fortress – having checked back, the most home games we have won in a season is 14 and they have been in the 3rd tier when we’ve won it. The other seasons (2004/5 included) haven’t been that great in terms of win % – at best 50%, and usually lower.
With regard to the payoff for Joyce, as I explained, my reason for not sacking him was based on my thinking we’d go down regardless of who is in charge, and that it costs less to pay someone off who earns (say) £10,000 per week than it does to pay someone off who earns £20,000 per week.
I voted to keep him (for now). I remember what happened last time we sacked two managers in the same season, and arguably that time we had a squad that should have been nowhere near the bottom 3.
This time we have a squad that was largely assembled when we were 3rd tier. Sure, we’ve added to it, but we have added players that other 2nd & 3rd division clubs didn’t really want. We signed Bogle, who was playing non-league football last season. In essence, we have a shit squad, and in all reality, we are going down with or without Joyce.
My prime reason for not sacking him now is financial. Assuming we are going down, and assuming that he will be taking a relegation pay cut like the rest of the squad, then I think he should be given until Nov/Dec of next season to show that with 12 months and two transfer windows under his belt, he can bring us back up and keep us up. If come November we are not around the top 6, then he gets the bullet, but it would be 2.5 years of lower wages as compo rather than 3 years of his current salary.
As the poster above quite rightly says, just because some supporters don’t agree with everything you say doesn’t make them a bellend – a very Orwell-esque point of view!
I think we must remember that the vast majority of football managers are not highly educated men, and quite often they will make two statements that completely contradict each other:
Quote: “Ryan wasn’t really playing during his loan spell, so he had a lot of work to do when he came back.”
Fact: He actually made made 14 starts and 9 sub appearances in the 25 games played. He even played on 30 Dec!
Now if WJ had said something akin to “During the last 6 weeks of his loan spell Ryan wasn’t getting enough game time which has impacted on his fitness level” then he would not look so much of a buffoon.
But then again, I would suspect Colclough has had more game time this season than a certain Mr Grigg, who now plays 2nd fiddle to someone who was playing non-league football last season, and is anything but on fire. If anyone needs a proverbial kick up the backside its him!
There seems to be an issue here with the team being able to grind out wins and put in half decent performances away from home when there are only a couple of hundred Latics fans in attendance.
The problem seems to be when they play at the DW or in front of a larger away following.
How about a boycott on Saturday?
I wonder how much vitriol Cov and Wimbledon get from their own townsfolk Portsmouth is a big city in a huge catchment area.Wimbledon had their ground sold from under them, became the tenants of various London clubs before their owners rebranded them 60 miles up the M1.
Coventry’s owners flogged all their assets and then fell out with the stadium owners, leaving a 50 mile trip to Northampton to play home fixtures, before finally going back to the Ricoh as the junior partner to Wasps Rugby, who themselves had de-camped from London to play in Coventry.
Sorry fella, but having a few 50-somethings calling the Latics “Pathetics, Wendyball and Craptics” (and vice versa with Chubbies, parasites) doesn’t even come close to the treatment that Wimbledon or Coventry fans have had to endure. We have a nice ground in Wigan that we play all our home games at, with cheap tickets and an owner who cares about the town and the club.
I still think Pompey fans are the most loyal around when it comes to tolerating failure and mismanagement by owners, managers and players. Eight years ago they had around 20,000 for premier league games. Yesterday there was nearly 17,000 on for a 4th division game at home to Crewe.
We have to put up with more crap than any other club.I suspect the fans of Wimbledon & Coventry City will disagree with you.
As for loyalty – Portsmouth’s fans have stuck with them as they tumbled through the divisions towards oblivion.
Anyone can run a business, but only a good businessman will run a profitable one.
As yet the lad hasn’t managed to make a financial success out of either business he’s been in charge of. Sure, we got promoted last season, but with the best part of £10m in parachute payments, then anything other than promotion would have been failure.
Next season will be the acid test for young Dave. No parachute payment means the club will have to be run pretty bloody well to stop more of granddad’s hard-earned cash pouring into a black hole.
You’re not wrong there. He had a squad who had just missed out on the playoffs and were a penalty kick from a 2nd FA Cup final. Sure, the next season hadn’t started fantastically well, but if DW hadn’t been so trigger happy, I doubt we’d have been relegated. We’d also have been saved the embarrassment of having McKay and the racism accusations thrown at DW and the club.